Tadej Pogacar retains yellow jersey after stage eight
Biniam Girmay wins stage eight of the Tour de France between Semur-en-Auxois and Colombey-les-deux-Eglises on Saturday. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty ImagesThe rolling 183.4km stage to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises – the former home and final resting place of Charles de Gaulle – looked tailor-made for a breakaway but instead came down to a reduced sprint on a riding gradient up to the finish line.
An Olympian, a revolutionary and a Christy Moore song: Bob Hilliard was the boxing Irish clergyman who fought against FrancoHyping up the violent imagery an unhealthy route for rugby to take The sprint finish meant no change at the top of the general classification ahead of Sunday’s anticipated stage over 14 gravel sections around Troyes, with Pogacar remaining 33 seconds clear of Remco Evenepoel, with defending champion Jonas Vingegaard 75 seconds back.
The Norwegian would do that and more as he spent 170km out front alone, but the six-minute advantage he built never looked like being enough to hold off a motivated peloton and he was finally reeled in around 15km from the finish.
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